The Best Way to Learn to Speak English

Mental Gymnastics

I have learned several foreign languages. What has helped me the most has always been working on oral exercises and thus doing "mental gymnastics". The idea is to assimilate "language patterns" and then practice them orally until you are capable of using them in real-time.

A Complement to Other Methods

I do not say my exercises are any better than those produced by other educators. I only know from what users have told me that these podcasts are very effective and an excellent "complement" to other methods learners may be using.

A Challenge

These podcasts are not easy. The first ones deal of course with very elementary points: the verb "to be" and the verb "to have". Very few students can quickly use without any hesitation all the tenses of these two basic verbs. So these first podcasts are a good review for students of all levels. Very quickly the episodes become challenging even for higher intermediate and advanced speakers. These are oral exercises, and although reading the scripts may be simple, actually doing the oral exercises in real-time without the aid of a script is far more difficult.

A Promise

I promise that anyone who has done even just half of all the more than 120 podcasts now available will improve his/her scores dramatically on international exams like the TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, BULETS, Cambridge (all examens from FCE, CAE to the Proficiency level).